I love how one start trek guy will hand his pda to another guy and say 'here's that report you asked for.' So not only do they not have email...
Of course not. By the 24th century, there's so much spam in email that you pretty much have to give you entire computer to someone for them to notice your message!
"Ease of hardware integration" is not Windows. That's the vendors. If anything the hardware vendors have a harder time creating new versions of drivers for each release of Windows than each major release of Linux.
How do you figure? If you write your driver to WDM, all you have to do is recompile it twice: once for the 9x kernels and for the NT kernels.
Meanwhile, Linux kernel modules are not only specific to a certain kernel version (see the driver porting guides to go from 2.4 to 2.6), but they even restrict themselves to a certain kernel release -- requiring a reinstall and recompile when you upgrade your kernel.
One of the channels being pulled is Comedy Central, I just canceled my Dish Membership today because of that.
...and that's why media companies, the RIAA, the MPAA, and their ilk have so much sway over our country. They can do whatever they want and people will still crawl over each other to get to their content.
I thought you said you removed it? No, what you do is remove the SHORTCUTS for it. Not quite the same thing now, is it?
The program that starts up when you do a ShellExecute() on a URL depends on a fully documented registry setting. If you install Firefox and tell it to become your default browser, not only does it take over IE's spot on XP's start menu, but it also becomes the browser that runs when you do Start > Run > "http://slashdot.org"
If you just drag the IE icon off your desktop to the Recycle Bin; then click "OK" on the dialog box that warns you that you're not really deleting the program, just the shortcut; then you have no real excuse for complaining that IE is still around.
Of course, you still can't "uninstall" IE because it is a system component. Windows Explorer uses it, the Windows Help system uses it, and numerous applications (even some that you wouldn't expect are using an HTML interface, since you can use IE to make very Win32-ish UIs) use it. Mozilla/Firefox can't replace all of those uses of IE simply because they're consciously decided not to allow their browser to do some of the advanced component scripting that IE allows; and that's required for a good number of those uses of the IE control.
If this had been a bug in MS, we may might not have heard about it for months or years unless someone on the outside published it. The crackers would have still had a good chance to have known about it.
This vulnerability was in Linux 2.2, which means that we didn't hear about it for years until someone published it. The crackers had a good chance to have known about it.
This is not different than MS -- in fact, by implying that crackers are more up on security problems than the white hats are (since that makes bashing MS easier); it's worse for Linux that since the source showing the existance of this bug has been out there for 5 years, the bug was more easily discoverable by the black hats than an obscure buffer overflow in some code distributed binary-only.
Sounds like a rather nice way of introducing stability and or compatibility problems to java by not allowing Sun's Hot Spot just in time compiler to work correctly.
Had Sun followed the instructions for making executable code pages for their JIT like MSDN has explained how to do since Windows 95, then the Hotspot compiler would work just fine.
If you want to blame someone here, blame Sun for not coding their stuff correctly in the first place.
Hopefully they're cracking down on all the apps that have to run as admin.
It's been a requirement for Windows XP Logo Certification (maybe even Windows 2000 certification, but I'm not sure) that your application has to run under a normal user account.
Of course, for apps that don't get logo certified, I don't think there's much Microsoft can do to force them to work.:( At least all over MSDN they recommend many times that when you use Visual Studio, you should do all your developing under a normal user account so you don't code yourself into an Administrator-only hole.
The actual wording is that EV1 didn't pay seven figures cash. My interpretation is that they may have given SCO something else beside cash to add up to seven figures.
SCO says the deal with EV1 is "worth" seven figures to them. They'll be using the deal as "proof" that their licenses are legit in future shakedowns of other companies, so having a deal with EV1 on paper is "worth" quite a lot as a PR tool to SCO.
So if I trade in a Chevy for a Ford, GM can sue me if I still have payments left on my loan?
Uh... yes? Unless whoever you sold it to assumed the debt, you're liable for it, regardless of whether you still have the vehicle or not. That's the difference between buying a car (hence, the loan) and leasing one.
..but I am entirely uninterested in NOT owning my music.
I am. I'd rather pay $9.95 a month and have access to the label's entire catalog for streaming for as long as I want to pay $9.95 a month, than pay a dollar per song.
It breaks down to the price of about 10 "bought" songs per month, or 120 "bought" songs per year. Compared to my MP3 library of 3000+ songs, I'd have to subscribe for well over 20 years before it'd be cheaper for me to have just bought all that music outright.
...maybe they should find a way to send datasets to the client machines and let them do their own manipulations.. Needing 8 Gig of disk on a 2+ GHz machine has to imply that the server doesn't handle all the real-time work... They are prime candidates for middleware that does some distributed computing and let all the customers' beast machines do the grunt work...
We should boycott EV1Servers for contributing to the SCO legal fund.
I've had my site running through EV1Servers (formerly Rackshack.net) for several years now, and because of this I'm extremely tempted to move to another hosting provider.
Where's the "Score: 5, Ludicrously Funny" when you need it?
I've never produced a title that wasn't designed out in sufficient detail beforehand enough to use proper planning on the project.
That's not to say that the design doc doesn't undergo revision during development (as little as I can help it); but I would never accept a project that was being created so seat-of-the-pants that there wasn't enough of a high level design for the developers to adequately structure their code. That's just a recipe for disaster.
I looked into SPF, briefly, and it doesn't seem to solve a problem I have...
I agree. SPF needs an "include" mechanism, so as to say "accept mail from all of these IP address, oh, and all the IP addresses that are valid for 'myispwhomakesmeusetheirsmtpserver.com'".
If the referenced domain doesn't publish an SPF record, then it should default to all-accepting, as SPF is handled as if there was no record in the first place.
But for such a simple datastream, with the throughput needed, it seems unnecessary to bloat it (cpu and memory wise) by having to use an XML parser, regardless of which evil/non evil company designed it.
A well-designed mail server would already have the XML parser in memory to deal with other sorts of interop, or for reading/storing its configuration files; that the added memory overhead wouldn't be that big of a deal.
And if not, the XML they're proposing is simple, there's really little need to use a full-blown XML parser for it, you could probably get by with a smaller, less-featureful one, designed just for this purpose -- and that wouldn't be any larger than the parser for whatever custom format Microsoft or anyone else would have come up with.
An obvious first (and large) step would be to not have every user running with Administrator privileges. Has anyone heard of any initiative by Microsoft to change this unfortunate default?
Yes. In order to have your software Windows Logo certified, it must run correctly under a normal user account, and support "Install for this user only" and, if you're an admin, "Install for all users" options during install.
Windows Installer pretty much comes set up to enable those sorts of installations by default.
I'm still waiting for somebody to hack the ability to fake a Microsoft Certificate, so they can use the update mechanism to distribute viruses/worms instead.
Yeah, I'm still waiting for somebody to hack the ability to fake a GPG signature so I can upload trojaned copies of Linux to all the major distribution sites signed by the original developers.
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I love how one start trek guy will hand his pda to another guy and say 'here's that report you asked for.' So not only do they not have email...
Of course not. By the 24th century, there's so much spam in email that you pretty much have to give you entire computer to someone for them to notice your message!
"Ease of hardware integration" is not Windows. That's the vendors. If anything the hardware vendors have a harder time creating new versions of drivers for each release of Windows than each major release of Linux.
How do you figure? If you write your driver to WDM, all you have to do is recompile it twice: once for the 9x kernels and for the NT kernels.
Meanwhile, Linux kernel modules are not only specific to a certain kernel version (see the driver porting guides to go from 2.4 to 2.6), but they even restrict themselves to a certain kernel release -- requiring a reinstall and recompile when you upgrade your kernel.
....God knows what else
Speaking of crazy things people believe in....
Am I the only one who thinks a 5-digit TLD is just too long to type in using the keypad on a cell phone?
.mobile !!!
Imaging how long it would take to type in a 6 digit TLD, like
They plan to insert the gene into mice to 'to see what affect it has on brain development.
Pinky: What are we going to do tonight?
The Brain: Same thing we do every night... try to take over the world!
One of the channels being pulled is Comedy Central, I just canceled my Dish Membership today because of that.
...and that's why media companies, the RIAA, the MPAA, and their ilk have so much sway over our country. They can do whatever they want and people will still crawl over each other to get to their content.
I thought you said you removed it? No, what you do is remove the SHORTCUTS for it. Not quite the same thing now, is it?
The program that starts up when you do a ShellExecute() on a URL depends on a fully documented registry setting. If you install Firefox and tell it to become your default browser, not only does it take over IE's spot on XP's start menu, but it also becomes the browser that runs when you do Start > Run > "http://slashdot.org"
If you just drag the IE icon off your desktop to the Recycle Bin; then click "OK" on the dialog box that warns you that you're not really deleting the program, just the shortcut; then you have no real excuse for complaining that IE is still around.
Of course, you still can't "uninstall" IE because it is a system component. Windows Explorer uses it, the Windows Help system uses it, and numerous applications (even some that you wouldn't expect are using an HTML interface, since you can use IE to make very Win32-ish UIs) use it. Mozilla/Firefox can't replace all of those uses of IE simply because they're consciously decided not to allow their browser to do some of the advanced component scripting that IE allows; and that's required for a good number of those uses of the IE control.
If this had been a bug in MS, we may might not have heard about it for months or years unless someone on the outside published it. The crackers would have still had a good chance to have known about it.
This vulnerability was in Linux 2.2, which means that we didn't hear about it for years until someone published it. The crackers had a good chance to have known about it.
This is not different than MS -- in fact, by implying that crackers are more up on security problems than the white hats are (since that makes bashing MS easier); it's worse for Linux that since the source showing the existance of this bug has been out there for 5 years, the bug was more easily discoverable by the black hats than an obscure buffer overflow in some code distributed binary-only.
Sounds like a rather nice way of introducing stability and or compatibility problems to java by not allowing Sun's Hot Spot just in time compiler to work correctly.
Had Sun followed the instructions for making executable code pages for their JIT like MSDN has explained how to do since Windows 95, then the Hotspot compiler would work just fine.
If you want to blame someone here, blame Sun for not coding their stuff correctly in the first place.
Hopefully they're cracking down on all the apps that have to run as admin.
:( At least all over MSDN they recommend many times that when you use Visual Studio, you should do all your developing under a normal user account so you don't code yourself into an Administrator-only hole.
It's been a requirement for Windows XP Logo Certification (maybe even Windows 2000 certification, but I'm not sure) that your application has to run under a normal user account.
Of course, for apps that don't get logo certified, I don't think there's much Microsoft can do to force them to work.
The actual wording is that EV1 didn't pay seven figures cash. My interpretation is that they may have given SCO something else beside cash to add up to seven figures.
SCO says the deal with EV1 is "worth" seven figures to them. They'll be using the deal as "proof" that their licenses are legit in future shakedowns of other companies, so having a deal with EV1 on paper is "worth" quite a lot as a PR tool to SCO.
So if I trade in a Chevy for a Ford, GM can sue me if I still have payments left on my loan?
Uh... yes? Unless whoever you sold it to assumed the debt, you're liable for it, regardless of whether you still have the vehicle or not. That's the difference between buying a car (hence, the loan) and leasing one.
Couldn't the machines and devices we have sent have just as good of a chance to contaminate Mars than humans?
Machines and devices can be sterilized, autoclaved, and what have you, to remove any presence of life, even at the bacterial level.
Human beings can't have such precautions taken. If we're going to send anything to Mars, machines are by far the safest option.
..but I am entirely uninterested in NOT owning my music.
I am. I'd rather pay $9.95 a month and have access to the label's entire catalog for streaming for as long as I want to pay $9.95 a month, than pay a dollar per song.
It breaks down to the price of about 10 "bought" songs per month, or 120 "bought" songs per year. Compared to my MP3 library of 3000+ songs, I'd have to subscribe for well over 20 years before it'd be cheaper for me to have just bought all that music outright.
I remember being 12 and having a twenty burn a hole in my pocket, but...
In Capitalist America, YOU burn a hole in money!
...maybe they should find a way to send datasets to the client machines and let them do their own manipulations.. Needing 8 Gig of disk on a 2+ GHz machine has to imply that the server doesn't handle all the real-time work... They are prime candidates for middleware that does some distributed computing and let all the customers' beast machines do the grunt work...
Rule #1 of online games: Never trust the client.
We should boycott EV1Servers for contributing to the SCO legal fund.
I've had my site running through EV1Servers (formerly Rackshack.net) for several years now, and because of this I'm extremely tempted to move to another hosting provider.
Where's the "Score: 5, Ludicrously Funny" when you need it?
I've never produced a title that wasn't designed out in sufficient detail beforehand enough to use proper planning on the project.
That's not to say that the design doc doesn't undergo revision during development (as little as I can help it); but I would never accept a project that was being created so seat-of-the-pants that there wasn't enough of a high level design for the developers to adequately structure their code. That's just a recipe for disaster.
Games are the opposite of that. They have to be designed incrementally
Only bad games are designed incrementally.
Good games start with a very comprehensive design document.
However, revoking a license to redistribute and changing the license under which software is redistributed are two different things.
The GPL does not have a clause permitting the author to revoke it. It only contains the self-revocation clause in the event of breach.
If it were author revocable, then, for example, AOL would have been able to pull Gnutella and WASTE back out of the GPL.
I looked into SPF, briefly, and it doesn't seem to solve a problem I have...
I agree. SPF needs an "include" mechanism, so as to say "accept mail from all of these IP address, oh, and all the IP addresses that are valid for 'myispwhomakesmeusetheirsmtpserver.com'".
If the referenced domain doesn't publish an SPF record, then it should default to all-accepting, as SPF is handled as if there was no record in the first place.
But for such a simple datastream, with the throughput needed, it seems unnecessary to bloat it (cpu and memory wise) by having to use an XML parser, regardless of which evil/non evil company designed it.
A well-designed mail server would already have the XML parser in memory to deal with other sorts of interop, or for reading/storing its configuration files; that the added memory overhead wouldn't be that big of a deal.
And if not, the XML they're proposing is simple, there's really little need to use a full-blown XML parser for it, you could probably get by with a smaller, less-featureful one, designed just for this purpose -- and that wouldn't be any larger than the parser for whatever custom format Microsoft or anyone else would have come up with.
I haven't seen that happen with perl
How many different forks of the perl source tree are there?
One?! That doesn't provide a counterexample at all!
An obvious first (and large) step would be to not have every user running with Administrator privileges. Has anyone heard of any initiative by Microsoft to change this unfortunate default?
Yes. In order to have your software Windows Logo certified, it must run correctly under a normal user account, and support "Install for this user only" and, if you're an admin, "Install for all users" options during install.
Windows Installer pretty much comes set up to enable those sorts of installations by default.
I'm still waiting for somebody to hack the ability to fake a Microsoft Certificate, so they can use the update mechanism to distribute viruses/worms instead.
Yeah, I'm still waiting for somebody to hack the ability to fake a GPG signature so I can upload trojaned copies of Linux to all the major distribution sites signed by the original developers.
Oh wait, that was FUD? You don't say!